Resolution questions from PSD to PDF

I have a picture book illustrated at 300dpi in Photoshop. The printer wants PDF's at 2400dpi. Using Distiller, I set the specs at 2400 dpi with no compression as per the printer's request. When I open the saved PDF in Photoshop, the image shows as 300dpi. Any ideas on what I could be doing wrong? If I have to save the original files to 2400 before saving as a PDF this could take weeks. Thanks for any help!

You are confusing PPI or pixels per inch vs. DPI or dots per inch. Just select one of the default Acrobat distiller settings like PDFX1a or High Quality Print. They are built as 2400 dpi which is output resolution - not to be confused with file resolution.

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Text is being cut off when going from PSD to PDF

I'm creating a card with the words "Happy Holidays" in the top 1/3rd of the document. In .psd format it's fine. When I save it as a .pdf it cuts off the top of the "L" and "D" of Holiday. I'm using the font Zapfino. I've tried duplicating the text and rasterizing it to replace the missing text, but then it only shows an outline of the missing text. I'm stumped. If you have any insight I'd appreciate hearing it.
Thank you!

Two work-arounds:
• Layer – Type – Convert to Shape should create a Solid Color-Layer with a Vector Mask and that should output as vector data in the pdf.
• Insert a much larger letter in the text (that can also be a space, so invisible)
As for the actual problem (Zapfino outputs with a white upper section in a pdf on my station, too): Curious indeed.

Adobe Printer Not Converting psd to pdf

I have a Photoshop CS4 Extended user who is attempting to print a psd file to her Adobe pdf printer using the following page set up settings:
Adobe PDF page size 22"x34",
print quality set to 4000dpi,
Truetype as "download as softfont".
The user gets as far as selecting the page setup settings in the print dialoge box and clicking okay to print but the "save as file location" dialoge never appears. However, she is able to save/print/convert from psd to pdf with the same settings except for the page size being 11x17.
User stated that this is a common work flow for her but started running into trouble late last week.
Troubleshooting Steps
All Adobe PS updates applied
Windows OS updates applied
Installed Adobe PDF Converter printer on a local port - With this printer, the file goes through all the usual steps and is able to execute the file conversion process even showing the progress bar but the file never appears in the selected location. Further troubleshooting steps included changing the save file to location settings from Adobe Prompt to a folder on the desktop but result was the same.
Hardware and Software Specs
Win 7 pro 64 bit
CS4 Extended
Adobe Acrobat XI Standard

It has EVERYTHING to do with the pixel dimensions of the image, so-many-pixels wide by so-many-pixels high.
The limit, already outlined by Mylenium, is 60,000 pixels in either of the two dimensions.
What he was suggesting—obviously—is to RESAMPLE the image. With the "Resample" box checked [ √ ], set the ppi to 300 ppi or less, and save that as a copy. That copy will print.
Changing the ppi alone without resampling the image is, of course, sheer nonsense.
As mylenium wrote:
What you see is perfectly logical. 4000 DPI seems slightly insane for any use case I can think of, especially at those sizes. You wouldn't need that resolution [even] to print a 100x100m mural…
That's 100 meters by 100 meters, or some 110 yards by 110 yards.
For a page size of 22"x34", you don't need more than 200 ppi, maybe less; but 300 ppi is doable.

How to read the 'full resolution composite' from a .psd file?

I'm working with 16-bit .psd files and have the "maximize compatibility" switch turned on in CS2. When a file is saved, a message box appears indicating that PS is generating a "full resolution composite." I'd guess this is stored in the .psd file somehow, because some of the 3rd party image viewers are able to display the image when the compatibility switch is used, but are unable to display the image otherwise.
My question is: how can I read this full resolution composite from the .psd file outside of Photoshop?
If this is the wrong forum to post this question, I'd appreciate it of you'd tell me a better place.
Thanks,
Dave H.

As you guess, it is stored in the PSD, but only with the Maximise Compatibility switch. Without that switch, a dummy image is stored which has the text "This layered Photoshop file was not saved with a composite image.", in English, German, Japanese and French.
My program
psdparse extracts each layer in an 8-bit file as a PNG, and the merged image for both 8- and 16-bit files. That link is to a Subversion repository containing source code.

From PSD to Illustrator to PRINT READY PDF getting blurry

Hello Experts,
I got a problem about converting my illustrator file to print ready pdf's. Basically i did my design in Illustrator but some of the graphic elements in my design are in PSD format, i just imported it to illustrator using place command and even embedded it to the main illustrator file, I got not problem with the resolution 'coz i set it to 300dpi CYMK. But the problem occurs when i print it to PDF because those images from psd file i imported are getting blurry, no matter how i set the settings to its maximum i still got those result over and over again. If anyone got a solution to this problem it might a good help to anyone not only me who is experiencing this problem.
Thanks,
erick

Thanks Mylenium, i finally figured it out now how to tweak those blurry stuff. First i tried to set the bicubic downsampling to its maximum pixels per inch and secondly i set the bicubic downsampling off, both settings just works fine. Thanks again. This is a great help.

Trying to convert a .psd to .pdf without changing dimensions

I have a whole bunch of label sheets that I've created in CS4. I would like to convert them to PDF so I'm not the only one who is able to print these label sheets. When I "save as" .pdf, what prints on the page is about 20% smaller than the original image. For instance, printing from .psd gives me 1" padding from the top of the page, and .25" padding from the right side of the page. Printing from .pdf gives me 1" padding from the top of the page, and 5/8" padding from the right side. This means the ink isn't lining up with the labels on the sheet. I have no idea why this is happening or how to fix it.
Original document information.
1275 x 1650 px (8.5" x 11")
resolution: 150
18 layers
Adobe Photoshop CS4 extended
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Thanks for the help, unfortunately that didn't work.
I checked my image size, in PS and that's fine.
Changed page scaling in Reader to "None" and that bumped the product even farther to the left on the page.

Page numbers incorrect after conversion from Excel to pdf

Page numbers incorrect after conversion from Excel to pdf
""This above link (thread:834599) is from a case back in 2011 that claims to solve this problem, but it does not solve this problem. I think that customer only cared about having continuous page numbering, not discrete page numbering per sheet.
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I still have this issue in Acrobat XI and MS Office Professional Plus 2010. I keep upgrading to no avail. This regression has resulted in a huge time drain for me. If you fixed it, please explain how I can get my hands on the resolution.
Previous versions of Excel and Adobe Acrobat enabled flexibility around the "Page #" of "Number of Pages" (Page &[Page] of &[Pages]) token, depending on context and usage. The "# of pages" token could represent EITHER the number of pages in the workbook OR the number of pages in the tab/sheet, depending on how you generated the PDF:
You could select "Selected Sheets" and then select all or some of the individual sheets in the workbook, and the PDF would honor the discrete numbering of each of the sheets, so the first page of each sheet was p1 and the "# of pages" was the number of pages in the sheet; not the number of pages in the workbook; or
You could select "Entire Workbook" and the PDF would honor continuous page numbers across all sheets, as a single document.
Now, it only honors the total number of pages in the workbook, regardless of the method you use to publish to PDF: saving as PDF, printing to PDF, using "createPDF" from Acrobat plugin to Excel's menu ribbon; selecting all sheets, some sheets, or Entire Workbook; automatic First page number or "1" under Page Setup > Page> First page number. (This last option, btw, does restart every sheet at p1, but it hardly makes sense if the total number of pages is still the total number in the workbook instead of the number in the sheet.)
I spent a lot of time trying each which way that the blog posts recommended and have tried this on multiple versions of Excel and Acrobat now.
NONE of these time-consuming experiments gave me what I wanted.They all insist that "Page #" of "Number of Pages" (Page &[Page] of &[Pages]) is the total number of pages in the workbook or the total number of pages in the selected sheets combined.
The numbering are correct in Excel Page Layout.
The same issue happens when using LibreOffice calc. (Although, I never tested with Libre Office before, so I don't know that it ever worked).
The workaround now is to create PDF for each spreadsheet one at a time, and then compile them using the Acrobat combine/binder feature. All alternatives are extremely time consuming and tedious. It used to be automatic. This is a major regression that has gone untreated for over a year now, maybe two years.
My task takes infinitely more time to complete than it did with previous versions of Acrobat. That means that days are added to my project, when the functionality used to enable a quick pdf generation that was ready for review, now I have to do this very manual time-consuming set of steps to generate a draft. As the project has grown and more tabs are added, my pdf-generation task takes that much longer. We require lots of drafts. It used to be easy and fast. Now it is hard and time-consuming.
In my opinion, the problem is not Excel; it is Acrobat because it was introduced with an upgrade in Acrobat, not an upgrade in Excel. The problem was introduced in Acrobat 9 or 10. Please provide a patch or add-on or something.

If you are setting up the page numbers in Excel, the resulting PDF would display the the page numbers created in Excel. On Excel 2010 support page, (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/insert-and-remove-page-numbers-on-worksheets- HA010342619.aspx#BM2) is stated the following "tip" which indicates by default Excel 2010 starts numbering each tab with 1. Exel's workaround tip is below -
Set a different number for the starting page
Tip To number all of the worksheet pages in a workbook sequentially, first add page numbers to all worksheets in a workbook, and then use the following procedure to begin the page number for each worksheet with the appropriate number. For example, if your workbook contains two worksheets that with both be printed as two pages, you would use this procedure to begin the page numbering for the second worksheet with the number 3.
On the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click the Dialog Box Launcher next to Page Setup.
On the Page tab, in the First page number box, type the number that you want to use for the first page.
Tip To use the default numbering system, type Auto in the First page number box.
Also helpful in the same section is the note on viewing page numbers. To see if the page numbering dilemma originates in Excel make sure you are using the Page Layout View see below:
Hide All
If you want numbers shown on pages when you print a worksheet you can insert page numbers in the headers or footers of the worksheet pages. Page numbers that you insert are not displayed on the worksheet in Normal view — they are shown only in Page Layout view and on the printed pages.
Overall it may be easier not to create the page numbers in Excel but instead create then in Acrobat using the Headers and Footers option in Acrobat. I hope this helps - it sounds like a frustrating issue you are experiencing.

Illustrator Application Window Resizes When Opening Smart Object from PSD

Hi All, I've taken a vector graphic created in AI CS4 and pasted it into my PSD CS4 doc as a smart object. When the original AI file was created the application window was set as I preferred it, filling my screen. When I double click the Smart Object in PSD to edit it back in Illy, the window that contains the application has been switched off of the fill screen mode and is quite a bit smaller. I know it's small but now I have to click the maximize icon in the application bar to get Illy to fill the screen again. It wouldn't be so bad once, but the application window resizes itself every time I punch back into the smart object from PSD.
Any ideas on how I can get the AI environment from switching around on its own??
Win 7, CS4, all patches current, Dual 22" montiors
thnx,
jeff

I just want to point out that when you open the smart object of course it is not the same file as the original but an embedded copy of it.
That might also have something to do with this issue and might also be a photoshop issue with the smart object and one reason might be that Photoshop is see the image as resolution and Illustrator sees it as a dimension and the teams might be able to do something about this but might not actually be aware of it unless you file a report even if it is not a bug it would then be a feature request.
They might not be able to do anything about it but then there might be a clever engineer with an idea, so it might be worth the report.

How do I save a large banner design (108" X 18") in PSD or PDF?

I design custom banners which include both text and images and have no problem saving my files as PSDs or PDFs as long as I stay under 96" wide. The minute I go wider, CS4 no longer gives me all my normal options, instead it gives me TIF, PSB, Photoshop RAW, or DICOM. I usually try to give my banner production house files that are not undersized as I don't want to have all the edges aliased and jaggy. Especially photographic portions of the banner. Is there a size limitation with CS4 Photoshop regarding saving in "normal" file formats? Typically I give my production house 300dpi PDFs and it works out great.
Thanks in advance for any/all advice.
Mike

Chris, Mike, Gator...
Thanks for your input. Mike... you're essentially saying I should downsize the artwork slightly and then reload into AI and convert to PDF after resizing. I have the full CS4 package although I confess that as a 15-year CorelDraw user, I never got into AI LOL... and now that I'm retired and doing these projects to keep the grey matter sharp... I don't know if I have the courage to try and convert my brain from CorelDraw to AI. But anyhow, your idea sounds like a do-able approach, certainly worth trying.
Gator... I honestly don't know for sure. I know they want artwork in 300dpi, and it should be in PDF or AI or CDR (CorelDraw) formats. And as much as I like CD for Vector work, Iequally love PS for general work... in fact, I probably use PS more than CD these days. I never bothered much with Corel's PhotoPaint even though I've been to Corel Seminars in the past. I will talk to my guys and see what they do before printing.
Mike

Is it possible to tell the resolution of images in a PDF?

I'm curious if there's a way to figure out what resolution the photographs in a PDF are saved at. I receive lots of ads from different designers. Occasionally some designer has used a low-res image in an ad, but I don't find this out until I get the prepress report. Is there another way to tell? My little desktop printer isn't too reliable for figuring out this kind of stuff, and I can't always tell from the filesize in a PDF (like I could with a JPEG).
Thanks, Phyllis

Pretty complicated stuff. Where do I look for the image resolution? I thought the Display Alerts would show that, but it doesn't seem to be the case. I have a long list of Preflight Profiles I can mess with, but it doesn't seem to say much about resolution. Any tips? Know any tutorials or anything on this?
Thanks, Phyllis

Hypertext links are not always preserved from Word to PDF, using Aperçu or Adobe, depending on OS 10 or Lion. Why? This generally works perfectly in Windows. Why are Apple and Adobe unable to correctly handle links when converting from Word to PDF?

Hypertext links are not always preserved from Word to PDF, using Aperçu or Adobe, depending on OS 10 or Lion. Why? This generally works perfectly in Windows. Why are Apple and Adobe unable to correctly handle links when converting from Word to PDF?
Depending on the system version, and Office Word version:
- a pure URL link starting with http or even www sometimes works in PDF, either produced by Aperçu or Adobe, sometimes does not work;
- other kind of links where the text under display is not a URL, never work!
I like everything with Apple computers and software, except PDF generation. Output files are usually bigger in size, and no better quality, than under Windows. Furthermore, it is weird that something as common as hyperlinks does not work correctly!
I related this question with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, but the problem is still there with Mac OS Lion.
This problem seems to have been around for years, without any proper solution from Apple and/or Adobe! To me, this is very embarrassing!

Greetings NoNameGiven,
If I understand the problem correctly (I’m not sure I do) you would prefer ‘iii’ to be read as “eye eye eye” rather than “three”? The alt text property is the only way that I know of to make this happen. Hope this helps.
a ‘C’ student

Export resolution and camera resolution question

I am thinking of buying a new camera- specifically one that will film video in widescreen as well as widescreen photo's. I have been looking at some that have a maximum video resolution of 848x480, which will come out fine.
With iMovie, so far I have been using my wife's Casio camera which records video at 640x480 (4:3 ratio), and I have been cropping the video in iMovie and exporting as 640x360 widescreen. The next resolution up from 640x360 in iMovies export settings is 960x540.
My question is, if my new camera has a video res of 848x480, when I export that in iMovie, will it have to be down-scaled to 640x360, or will there be an option to export at the same resolution (I don't think it will let me upscale it to 960x540)?
Thanks.
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As long as you don't have "constrain" checked, it won't resample.

I Have a question from a Customer about ONLINE OPTION

Hi all,
I have the below question from one of my customers, and non being a DB expert I am not able to answer or even where to find a documentation supporting the answer.
"We need to know how the "Online Option" to reorg indexes or tables is safe to be used, this way:
- Alter table ... Move .. online;
- Alter table ... Rebuild .. online;
to understand if the technique can be used to maintain the DB without stopping service to end users.
The DB is in 11gR2. I do not want notes or PDF's but just answers on:
- It's Safe ? yes/No or Yes with some tricks, Best practices (which?)
- Any known issues or bugs or patches to be applied (or Service Packs)"
I was planning to setup a Bug Review with my ACS Service Engineers but they would like a quick preliminary answer to the fist question before starting the full Bug Review.
In my understanding, the Online option is to reorg indexes and not tables... am I right?
Which can be a documentation page or community discussion or any additional link you can share ?
Or may be you just have a full answer :)
Thank you
Kind regards
Chiara
Edited by: Chiara Scarafiotti on Jun 7, 2013 2:35 AM

Rebuilding an index online will lock the base table at the start and end of the rebuild, this can cause issues if there are active transactions see http://richardfoote.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/index-create-and-rebuild-locking-improvements-in-11g-ch-ch-ch-changes/
alter table move online will make any associated indexes unusable and these will need to be rebuilt after the table is moved.
Two other options:-
for indexes a coalesce is generally faster and requires less space.
For everything dbms_redefinition has more options and is less intrusive at the expense of being more complex.
Also probably the biggest risk is you move tables rebuild indexes charge your customer for all this work and it fails to improve anything (or actually makes things worse)

Another resolution question.....sorry

Thanks to Zac and Bogie for helping me out with the whole resolution questions but I do have one more....sorry. Do I need to log and capture in FCP in order to import the file into compressor to change the codec or is there another way? Maybe direct from the camera so it doesn;t get any more compressed than it is?
Thanks again for putting up with me
Rick

If you shot on DV, for example, capturing it isn't compressing more. It is what it is. You shot it DV, it is DV. What's on the tape isn't "better" than what gets captured to your hard drive.
Anyway, yes, you have to capture or ingest the footage or have some sort of existing movie file to put it into Compressor. You can't take it from the camera directly.

Miscellaneous - Questions from a Newbie

I just got my iPhone this week and some questions popped up. I know that some of them might fit better in other categories than "basics"...
1. Sync with Outlook - I was under the impression that the iPhone syncs up with Outlook but:
a) How can you mark an Outlook Appointment as "privat" so not everyone in your company who has access to you calender can read it?
b) Why are no documents synced, which are in a Calender Appointment save in Notes? (The Text in Notes will sync, but no PDFs for example...)
c) When I reply to an E-Mail, the info that an when I replyed is not saved in Outlook
d) in Outlook I can mark e-mails with priorities... this is not shown on the iPhone
e) can the Auto-reply or Out-of-the-Office message set or changed from the iPhone?
2. Mail
a) I have differnt E-Mail accounts and would like to use different signitures for each account... the is an App, but thats too complicated. Is there a way to have an automated signature for each acount (this should be a basic feature!!!)
b) Can I save e-mail attachments in specific folders? (eg a word doc)
3. Media
a) How can i created different Folders in the photoalbum, so I can sort them and don't have to scroll for ages...
b) Can I get access to the Folders on the iPhone, so I can copy (for example Music) for differnt sources to the iPhone?
c) Is there another Sync programm than iTunes?
d) Can I delete Apps which I don't use (eg. Weather, Stockmarket...), but which are allready installed when i bought it
4. Sounds and Alerts
a) Can i create my own ringtones (eg an mp3)?
b) Can I add other alert sounds (for E-mails for example)
c) How can I change sounds for different Events (New Mail, Alert...)?
5. Connectivity
a) Can I sync the iPhone over bluetooth?
b) Can I use the iPhone as a modem for my laptop? how?
c) If stolen, can I remotely delete it or search it via GPS?
6. Battery
a) is it normal that when you use push mail and make a couple of calls a day the battery only last for max. 20 hours?
Thats the first lot of question from week one... Thanks in advance for replys and the awaiting answers
Axl

I can answer some of them:
Is there a way to have an automated signature for each acount (this should be a basic feature!!!)
No
b) Can I save e-mail attachments in specific folders? (eg a word doc)
No. You can't save attachments - just view them
b) Can I get access to the Folders on the iPhone, so I can copy (for example Music) for differnt sources to the iPhone?
No. The iPhone cannot be directly accessed like a hard disk. There are third-party apps that allow this to a certain degree, but you can't add Media to the iPhone via this method.
c) Is there another Sync programm than iTunes?
Not really. There's some that may do some features, but not a complete replacement for it. What's wrong with iTunes?
d) Can I delete Apps which I don't use (eg. Weather, Stockmarket...),
No. But you can move them to a different Home screen.
a) How can i created different Folders in the photoalbum, so I can sort them and don't have to scroll for ages...
http://www.question-defense.com/2009/08/15/how-to-create-photo-albums-on-your-ip hone-on-a-windows-xp-computer/
a) Can i create my own ringtones (eg an mp3)?
Yes. Google "create iPhone ringtone" for a variety of options
a) Can I sync the iPhone over bluetooth?
No.
b) Can I use the iPhone as a modem for my laptop? how?
Yes, although it depends where you are. See:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3574
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2756
c) If stolen, can I remotely delete it or search it via GPS?
Yes. See MobileMe's "Find My iPhone" feature:
http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/iphone.html
a) is it normal that when you use push mail and make a couple of calls a day the battery only last for max. 20 hours?
Quite possibly. Battery life seems to be reduced in the latest firmware and lots of people are awaiting a fix from Apple.

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